#arsenicsulphide

The Industrial Revolution started roughly 100 years ago... And I imagine the revolution must have gone on for some time before the first airships were created. So if the revolution was 100 years ago, the first airship came about 90 years ago, and the war maybe ~10 years later after it had been refined and the different "kingdoms" had started to try taking over land... The war was 10 years long.

That would make it about ~70 years since TAW, and with such a huge war, there were most likely many, many years spent on rebuilding. 

My personal headcanon is that this took away funds from many other projects, putting most of Abovem in a "paus" so they stepped in the same place when it came to inventions and technology for a long time, just reusing what they knew and improving slowly... Until they got back on their legs again!

This also means that while most humans and other folk with similar age span who were alive during TAW has died, but many dwarves, elves and other races who were there from start to finish would remember it vividly.

Would it be helpful if maybe we added a sort of timeline to The Core perhaps?

Or more like, something about how they count their years, aching to a calendar? Because that would probably not be impossible to fix. o:

Oh, that sounds really neat! :D I'm looking forward to see when it's posted.

Hey, thanks for the input!

I’m aware this is how they work, but I made a quick look over and saw that we indeed forgot quite a few details about that, and worded some things a bit weirdly.

I will edit as soon as I got time over but for now; due to the lack/tiny amounts of fossils to use as fuel, ie coal and oil (especially since the war, but also due to the fact they live on flying islands; you can only dig that deep into the ground), they have resorted to finding other sources of energy to create heat.

One big discovery (mentioned briefly in biotech) is the Hujo three, which is bred and harvested for its nature of growing rapidly, not to mention how it’s been shown to have huge energy-capabilities.

Currently the only known way to harvest this energy is to make a sort of charcoal out of the wood/burn it; in other words it’s used in steam engines replacing coal.